Christs victory over Satan's tyranny Wherein is contained a catalogue of all Christs faithful…Christs victorie ouer Sathans tyrannie Wherin is contained a catalogue of all Christs faithfull…

And Innocentius saith, how many hath Covetousness deceived for Balacks rewards. Balaam would have cursed Gods people, notwithstanding his Ass reproved him, Covetousness made Achan steal the accursed things to the destruction of him and his house: Gehesie was stricken with Leprosy for selling a mans health that came by the grace of God: Judas for covetousness sold Christ, and after hanged himself; Covetousness was the cause of the lying and sudden death of Ananias and Sapphira.

And Innocentius saith, how many hath Couetousnesse deceiued for Balacks rewards. Balaam would haue cursed Gods people, notwithstanding his Asse reproued him, Couetousnes made Achan steale the accursed things to the destruction of him and his house: Gehesie was stricken with Leprosie for selling a mans health that came by the grace of God: Iudas for couetousnes sold Christ, and after hanged himselfe; Couetousne• was the cause of the lying and sudden death of Ananias and Saphira.

If a rich man have a whole street, or a great field, and a poor man have an Acre of Land, or but one House near, either by entreaty, or pursuing, he never ceaseth until he hath gotten the poor mans House and Land, as Ahab and Jezebel ⟨p. 108⟩s••w Naball for his Vineyard. Saint Ambrose saith to the rich, how long will you scratch out your covetousness, will you dwell alone, and have no poor dwell with you: why put you out your kind, and challenge the earth which Nature hath made common to poor and rich: Nature bringeth forth all men poor, naked, and needy of meat and drink, without riches or gay clothes, and the earth taketh us naked again, and closeth none of our riches: he that maketh difference betwixt poor and rich, when they have lien a little in the grave, look upon them who was poor, and who was rich, and thou shalt se• no difference in their bones, except there be more clothes rotten with the rich then the poor, which is a hurt to the living, and no good to the dead: of such extortioners it is written, they reap other mens fields and they pluck away the Grapes of the vine of the oppressed, they pluck away their clothes and leave them naked: and in that the aforesaid pot was lift up betwixt heaven and earth, showeth that covetousness hath no Charity to God, or Man, and they carry the pot to the Land of Shinar, that is, the land of stench or Hell. Here we should ask how thou hast governed thy Wife, thy Children and servants, whether thou hast brought them up in Gods Laws, and continued them therein according to thy power, otherwise thou shalt give an account, and to avoid these hard accounts, I counsel every one to trust in the mercy of God, through Christs demerits with a lively Faith, and repenting heart of thine iniquities, and Amend, else who shall grant thee pardon and release of thy accounts.